10 Benefits of Breastfeeding to a MOTHER
Breastfeeding is feeding a newborn with the milk from a woman’s breast. This can happen from the time a baby is born until around 2 years or when the mother prefers to wean her child. By weaning, we mean stopping the breastfeeding of the child.
10 Benefits of Breastfeeding to a Mother
Breastfeeding is also called nursing and is important as it has a lot of advantages both to the mother’s body and to the child. Here are 10 such important benefits.
10 Benefits of Breastfeeding to a MOTHER
1. Calorie Incinerator
As you continue to breastfeed your baby, your body drains as many calories as possible automatically. It is known to burn up to 500 calories per day. This means you don’t need much exercise to lose your pregnancy weight
2. Improved Healing
A woman’s body would have undergone a lot of bruising during the process of giving birth. Breastfeeding will heal these faster and help the new mother get back to normalcy at the earliest
3. Reduced Risk of Cancer
By breastfeeding, the lymph nodes get activated along with the other components of the breast. These reduce the risk of breast cancer. A woman who does not breastfeed her child is more likely to be affected by breast cancer than a woman who has breastfed. It also reduces the risk of pre-menopausal ovarian cancer.
4. Gain of Unmatched Energy
As a new mother, every time you breastfeed your baby, you feel an unmatched power in you. It keeps you energized which is important for you to support your baby’s growth.
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5. Menstrual Vacation
As long as you are breastfeeding your baby well, your periods are on a vacation. As lactation reduces, the periods come. Breastfeeding is known to delay ovulation.
6. Bonding with the New Born
The touch with your newborn while breastfeeding improves the bonding between the mother and the baby. You will better understand your baby in this way both in terms of physical and emotional growth.
7. Breastmilk is the Best Medicine
Breast milk is not only nutritious but also works as a medicine miraculously. For instance, if you have sore eyes, try applying a stash of breast milk and the sore is known to vanish within minutes. That’s how powerful the breast milk of a woman is!!
8. Less Weight Gain
As said earlier, it burns calories, and hence the process of weight gain is slowed down. If you are breastfeeding you don’t gain much weight during postpartum
9. Hormonal Balance
Breastfeeding helps maintain a balance of hormones. As long as you are feeding your baby, you do not have to worry about those pimples on your face or even mood swings. Your hormones are intact and do not hamper your life.
10. Natural Contraceptive
Breastfeeding is a natural way to control birth. i.e when you are breastfeeding, your chances of getting pregnant are very low. 98 – 99 percent is the accuracy that breastfeeding controls birth. So you can stash the condoms and be happy!
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